Just think how your life would be different if you were able to name yourself growing up. What name would you choose? While David Gonos is already a Top 10 name ever, I think I’d rename myself something awesome, like Steve Thunderclaw, Butch Darktastic, or Nando Di Fino.
OK, we can’t fix our regular lives with an awesome new name, but we can give our fantasy lives a better chance at success with an awesome fantasy baseball team name!
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Let’s get real, though. Does changing your fantasy team name really make a difference? Well, let me ask you – how many of your league’s past champions can you name? Hardly any? That’s because their fantasy team names stink!
Why do we even try? Why don’t we all just use “Dave’s Team” or “Team Gonos” or the ubiquitous “Team 8”? It’s because fantasy baseball is supposed to be enjoyable and fun. If not, we’d just use fantasy social security numbers for our team names. Making it fun means trying to find team names that evoke fear, laughter… or the ever-satisfying eye-roll.
Quality fantasy baseball team names might include a play off a player’s name, something timely in pop culture, something clever, something regional, or something awesome based off the league’s theme.
Here’s another fun tip – name your fantasy team after one of the other GMs in your league. It kills two fantasy birds with one stone – you get a fun team name and you can mock a leaguemate.
- Dwayne’s Receding Hairline
- Todd’s Imaginary GF from Niagara Falls
- High School Tommy (then include a great nerdy high school headshot of Tommy as your logo)
- Melissa’s Loser Boyfriend Club
- Ghost of Skinny Dave
If you’re not wanting to be funny or goofy, you can always look back at baseball history and find some great inspiration:
- Homestead Grays
- Brooklyn Dodgers
- Montreal Expos
- Royal Rooters
- Pittsburgh Alleghenys
- Kansas City Monarchs
- Bronx Bums
- Bleacher Creatures
Or even baseball TV/movie history:
- Hackensack Bulls (Brewster’s Millions)
- Myrtle Beach Mermen (Eastbound & Down)
- New York Knights (The Natural)
- Staten Island Stevedores (A League of Their Own)
- Pittsburgh Factories (BASEketball)
- Springfield Isotopes (The Simpsons)
Whatever you do in 2021, make sure you put at least a little thought into your fantasy baseball team name, even if it just means using one of the great ones on this list – or the even better ones we get from our commenters each season!
Fantasy Team Names For 2021 Rookies & Prospects
- Bohm’s Away
- Magic Wander
- Mount Rutschmanmore
- Sixto Went To the Market
- Spencer Torkelson For Hire
- Where Fools Rutschman In
- Wander Vision
- Wander Woman
- The Wanderful World of Fantasy
201 More Awesome Fantasy Baseball Team Names
- 50 Shades of Sonny Gray
- A Puig of Their Own
- A To the Rizzo
- A Vogelsong of Bryce and Fiers
- Acuna Machado
- Acuna Matata
- Acuna Moncada
- Advanced Gleybermetrics
- All Betts are Off
- The Altuve Fairy
- Bartolo’s Cologne
- Battle of Whits
- Beam Me Up Piscotty
- Betances With Wolves
- Better Call Paul
- Big League Choo
- Blackmon Turner Overdrive
- Bregman On Campus
- Bryce Bryce Baby
- Bryce Krispies
- Buxton Loose
- Candy Crush Davis
- Can’t Cutch This
- Cano Business Like Sano Business
- Carrasco Sauce
- Carry On My Heyward Son
- Charlie Morton Fishermen
- Confortobly Numb
- Cozart of War
- d’Arnaud Crying In Baseball!
- d’Arnaud He Dit’n’t!
- Dangerous North Correa
- deGrom Nom Nom
- deGromegorgen
- Desmonds Are Forever
- Domo Arigato, Nolan Arenado
- Eggs Odorizzi
- The Ellsbury Doughboy
- Everyday I’m Russellin’
- Funky Cold Molina
- Flock of Seagers
- For Whom the Bellinger Tolls
- Gentlemen Profar Blondes
- Gin Andrus
- Gleyber Pains
- Goldschmidt Finger
- Goldschmidt Happens
- Goldschmidtmember
- The Good, The Vlad and the Ugly
- Grand Theft Votto
- Gregorius B.I.G.
- The Gurriel With the Dragon Tattoo
- Gurriels Gone Wild
- The Gyorko Store
- Hader’s Gonna Hate
- Hanging With the Pham
- Here Comes the Judge!
- Here’s My Number, Cameron Maybin
- Hold Me Closer, Tiny Dansby
- Honey Nut Chirinos
- Joc Itch
- Judge Dredd
- Judge, Drury and Executioner
- Just Sano
- Kershawshank Redemption
- Leave It To Bieber
- Lindor Loutdoor Carpeting
- Lindor Truffles
- Machado About Nothing
- Macho Machado Man
- MadBum Men
- Marte in the U.S.A.
- Mookie of the Year
- The Mookie Monster
- Morning Woodruff
- Neverending Trevor Story
- New Joc City
- No Soup For Yu!
- Oooh, Blake Snell!
- The Pen is Mightier Than the Schwarber
- The Phamtom Menace
- Plouffe, There It Is!
- The Price is White
- Private Dansby
- The Realmuto Housewives
- Ring Around Arozarena
- Rhys Pieces
- Say It Ain’t Soto
- Shohei the Money
- The Seven-Year Yelich
- Scherzer Skins
- Seager Beavers
- Shark-Arenado
- Shane Belieber
- Sippin’ On Gin Andrus
- The Sirius Blackmons
- Snell Like Teen Spirit
- Soler Flares
- Springer In My Step
- Springer of Pain
- Stanton Island
- Stuck In the Middle With Yu
- Super Benintendi
- Syndergaarden Cop
- Syndergaardians of the Galaxy
- Tater Tatis
- Team DumbleOdor
- There Goes Masahiro
- There Goes My Hiura
- The Three Moustakas
- The Trevor Ending Story
- This is Lowe We Do It
- Trout, Trout, Let It All Out
- Twist and Trout
- Upton Funk
- Upton Girl
- Votto Ticket
- Wacha This Way
- Save Walker Buehler!
- Wainwrights Don’t Make a Wong
- We Can Be Masahiros
- With a Rebel Yelich
- Yoenis Envy
Great Fantasy Baseball Team Names From The AthleticReaders
Over the past few seasons, we’ve had dozens of great fantasy team names recommended by our readers, so I shared them here. Something else I wanted to mention was how one of our readers said their league names their teams.
“Pick a player on your team and look up their high school name and mascot. For example, the guy who had Justin Verlander named his team Goochland Bulldogs. I had Bellinger so I was the Hamilton Huskies. Of course, your team logo then becomes that guy in their high school jersey.“ – Randy P.
- All I Do is Marwin – Randy P.
- Albies There For You – Ryan L.
- Angels in the Troutfield – Matt M.
- Bears Betts Battlestar Galactica – Jordan S.
- Bergman of Alcatraz – Gary L.
- Bieber Fever – Jacob R.
- Bob’s Strasburgers – Andrew O.
- Breaking Vlad – Wesley C.
- Bryce Larper – Matt L.
- Yusei He’s Just a Friend – Matt C.
- Cespedes Without Pay – Marc S.
- Colonel Xanders – Ethan S.
- Cruel Benintentions – Seth P.
- deGrom n’Noodles – Bryan S.
- DeJong and DeRestless – Chandler S.
- Domingo Ate Ya Baby – Andrew M.
- Fight the Bauer – Todd K.
- Green Eggs and Pham – Cody M.
- Greinke and the Brain – C L.
- Gurriels Just Wanna Have Fun – Rob H.
- Harvey’s Can Bangers – Craig B.
- Hotty Tatis – Justin P.
- It Just Got Realmuto – Nick N.
- It Smells Like Votto’s Jacket – Mark B.
- Kiss My Heaney – Darren P.
- Kluber Lang – Bryan H.
- Lindor Truffle Shuffle – Chase A.
- The ManLindorian – Jonathan R.
- Merrifield of Dreams – Matt M.
- Ox Died, Morales Low – Kevin K.
- Ryu-Tang Clan – Matt G.
- Saved By the Bellinger – Nathan L.
- Show Me Your Tatis – Robby M.
- Snell the Glove – Chase S.
- Son of a Bich… ette – John W.
- Strop on a Rope – Kev G.
- Tatis Twister – Adam C.
- The Time is Glasnow! – JP N.
- Vladdy’s Daddy – Jack M.
- Votto’s Devotees – Gonzalo M.
- The Vottoman Empire – John L.
- Walker, L.A. Dodger – Abraham E.
- Wanderlust – Kevin W.
- Who Wants Teixeira Dessert? – Charles C.
- You Make Me Wanna Trout! – Mike S.
Let’s hear which of these 2021 fantasy baseball team names you loved or hated – or better yet, share some of your own favorites we might have missed, and make it into next year’s column!
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